Nothing personal, but everytime I hear about who started the internet and when, the date gets steadily revised backwards in time. Even the Wikipedia article you linked to basically said that the "internet" was a collection of military LANs using TCP/IP format to exchange data. Then in the mid-eighties a university adopted the same standard. After that more universities made the transition, and started making dial-up connections to their servers available to employees & students in their local communities, who had "workstations" (the term used back then). It unfolds in the same way I described in the mid-90s with the emergence of IP businesses. But looonngggg before all that (early 80's at least) were groups of individuals with modems communicating directly without any servers at all.
Maybe I'm wrong about the definition of a "grid". But I think non-server networks using uTorrent or Napster would work just as well without servers, if we didn't have to pay long-distance charges.
Geek Speak » in reply to You're really on a roll
What a load of crap
The whole thread (25 posts)
- A question about the sustainability of the Internet
- programming cost?
- getting into the metaphysical
- Is it virtual or is it Memorex?
- P.S. I am a figment of your imagination.
- re: Is it virtual or is it Memorex?
- Is it virtual or is it Memorex?
- getting into the metaphysical
- Who knows?
- I suppose it started with local networks
- programming cost?